SIPAnews spring 2000 / VOLUME XIiI NO.2
1 From the Dean Lisa Anderson reports back from a SIPA-sponsored conference in Mexico City. 2 Faculty Forum Mahmood Mamdani believes the stage is set for a new way of studying Africa. 3 Alumni Forum Diana Bruce Oosterveld (’97 MPA) helps New Yorkers gain access to Medicaid. 4 Dear SIPA Eddie Brown (’99 MIA) lives in the “worst place in the world” and loves it. 5 Faculty Profile Peter Danchin returns to South Africa to help shape post-apartheid Constitution. 6 Alumni pay debt of gratitude by donating their time and talents to SIPA. 8 EPD students travel to Kosovo to help former combatants launch new lives.
9 8 MIA Program News Race relations forum highlights SIPA’s first Diversity Week. 10 MPA Program News 12 Schoolwide News 13 14 Faculty News 16 Alumni News New Alumni Director Nancy Riedl urges grads to keep in touch. 22 Class Notes It was a virtuoso display of the breadth and sophistica- tion of SIPA’s capacities in policy analysis.
From the Dean: Lisa Anderson SIPA’s Bond with Mexico: Qué Viva!
very so often, something debate about policy among the schol- that “globalization” and “informal happens that epitomizes ars and practitioners from SIPA, economy” aren’t any easier to define in much of what makes my CIDE, and the worlds of public policy Spanish than in English? Or that the job irresistibly gratifying. in both New York and Mexico City. March presidential elections in Taiwan One of those moments Columbia contributed faculty and were closely followed in Mexico, as occurred at the end of practitioners who work on interna- they consider the possibility that the EMarch in Mexico City, when I realized tional economic policy, urban public longtime ruling party might lose the that our nearly year’s worth of work on management, international migration, presidency in elections scheduled for the SIPA-sponsored conference, political corruption, environment pol- July? “Mexico on the Threshold of a New icy, political consulting, and Latin We did not resolve all of the Century,” had paid off in multiple American politics, crime and policing. dilemmas which face Mexico at the ways. It was a virtuoso display of the breadth beginning of the 21st century, but I The conference was the brain- and sophistication of SIPA’s capacities suspect that our conference did con- child of several Mexican alumni of in policy analysis. It was not, however, tribute a few good ideas to the ongo- SIPA, and the Columbia University merely a traveling show-and-tell. We ing discussions. Equally importantly, Alumni Association of Mexico was one were joined by our Mexican counter- we cemented our ties with a vibrant of its co-sponsors, along with the parts—academics who work on eco- and growing alumni community in office of University Development and nomic policy and urban policy as well Mexico, a group that makes up a non- Alumni Relations, the Institute of as managers, analysts and activists from trivial element in the country’s policy Latin American Studies here at SIPA, the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and elite. and the Centro de Investigación y Communications and Transport, the It is my hope that we will con- Docencias Económicas (CIDE), a dis- Federal Election Institute, the Central tinue to be a resource for all our tinguished social science research and Bank and Mexico City government. alumni long after they leave Morning- education institute in Mexico City. Many of the Mexican panelists were side Heights: a source of research and CIDE’s participation was facilitated by alumni, who knew well the remarkable ideas, of moral support and even of the several Columbia alumni in its insights born in mixing academic conviviality and friendship. This con- administration; coverage of the confer- research and policy analysis, from their ference demonstrated the enormous ence by TVAzteca was arranged by a days at SIPA. They joined—indeed, gratifications in that role, and it is a Columbia alumnus; financial sponsor- often provoked—the debates and dis- model I hope we will be able to export ship by Booz, Allen & Hamilton’s cussions that spilled out of the audito- well beyond Mexico. All we will need Mexico office was secured by yet rium during the coffee breaks as we are alumni as talented and dedicated as another alumnus. examined the nature of capital and Hector de la Cruz, Alejandro The event produced by all these labor flows between the United States Echegaray, Raphael Freyre, Feliciano partners was remarkable. CIDE’s and Mexico, the sustainability of urban Garciarramos, Beatriz Leycegui, Fran- beautiful new auditorium was an ideal development, the dilemmas of main- cisco Meré, Federico Rublí, Luis Car- site, and the local arrangements were taining public security, and the los Ugalde, and Abraham Zamora— extraordinarily thorough and thought- prospects for democratic government and above all, Gustavo Cano, who ful—even the weather cooperated. An and economic development in 21st served as the tireless and ever-smiling elegant reception for alumni and century Mexico. conference coordinator. I am proud to friends of Columbia provided an occa- Did you know that 20 million be associated with them and with their sion for socializing and—as always— people with roots in Mexico live in the school. networking! United States? Or that the populations But, without a doubt, the most of Mexico City and New York repre- remarkable aspect of the entire meet- sent one in 10 of the world’s city ing was the intellectual exchange and dwellers? Does it surprise you to learn
SIPAnews 1 Faculty Forum: Mahmood Mamdani Re-Configuring the Study of Africa
Ethiopia, all “closely connected with Council (HSRC) of South Africa fol- Asia;” and finally, “Africa Proper,” the lowed suit. source of slaves debased in the Euro- The new period poses a double pean imagination as “the land of child- challenge to the institutional study of hood . . . lying beyond conscious his- Africa. The first stems from the legacy tory . . . enveloped in the dark mantle of slavery, colonialism and apartheid, of Night.” one that has crystallized the institu- The Hegelian notion of “Africa tional boundaries of African study as Proper” as sub-Saharan Africa was different from the geographical modified in the era of colonialism and boundaries of Africa. The second the Cold War. The more “apartheid” stems from the legacy of the Cold War, South Africa came to be seen as an which shaped a tradition of area studies exceptional experience, the more that tended to treat the geographical Africa came to be identified racially boundaries of continental “areas” into and geographically: racially with Negro boundaries of knowledge. (Bantu) Africa and geographically with I would like to suggest a tentative middle Africa, the land between the answer to this double dilemma. The ew of us have the privilege Sahara and the Kalahari. This is the first is to redefine the institutional of naming ourselves. Typi- notion of Africa that came to be boundaries of African Studies to coin- cally, naming is done by inscribed in the academy, not only in cide with the geographical boundaries others. Africa was a Roman Europe but also in the United States of continental Africa and surrounding name, the name by which and, indeed, in apartheid South Africa. islands. The second is to treat these Rome called its southern- Even today, the academic preoccupa- boundaries as both shifting in time and Fmost province, what we today call tion of institutes of African studies in porous at any point in time. By doing North Africa. the United States, including that of so, we would stop taking geography as The next big shift in the meaning Columbia University, is not with the a permanent artifact, a historical given, of Africa came with the slave trade. African continent, but with sub-Saha- and rather treat it as a historical prod- Both the trans-Saharan and trans- ran Africa. uct that continues to be fluid. Indian Ocean slave trade identified If the end of colonialism did not If the end of the Cold War has set with Arabs, and the trans-Atlantic slave pose this question sharply, then the the stage for a single global process— trade identified with Europeans. In the simultaneous end of the Cold War and globalization—then one needs to imagination of those who debased apartheid certainly underlines the beware before turning globalization humanity in Africa through the slave necessity to review a tradition that into a one-sided preoccupation that The new period poses trade, Africa became identified socially originated in the period of slavery and dispenses with the local in the name of a double challenge to with Negro Africa and physically with was institutionalized under successive the universal. Since globalization can sub-Saharan Africa. Instead of the doses of colonialism, the Cold War and only be perceived, defined and, indeed, the institutional study bridge it had been between lands to its apartheid. It is worth recalling that the shaped from a local vantage point, the north and south, the Sahara was now first significant departure from this tra- recognition of global trends should be of Africa. seen as a great civilizational barrier. dition came in the post-colonial reason not to downplay area studies as Arabs called the land to the south African academy. Founded by social local knowledge. It should, rather, lead of the Sahara “Bilad-as-Sudan,” the science faculties inside Africa, the to making the boundaries of areas suf- land of the black people. As the Council for the Development of Social ficiently porous to problematize the Atlantic slave trade gathered steam, Research in Africa (CODESRIA) relationship between the local and the Europeans followed suit. In Philosophy defined itself as a continental organiza- global. of History, Hegel divided Africa into tion committed to reflect on the very three parts: “European Africa,” which historical experience that had come to Mahmood Mamdani became director of SIPA’s Institute of African Studies last included the Mediterranean lands of define the contours of post-colonial fall. He is the Herbert Lehman Professor of north Africa; “the land of the Nile,” by Africa. With the end of apartheid, the Government at Columbia, and president which he meant Egypt, Nubia and reorganized Human Science Resource of CODESRIA, based in Dakar, Senegal.
2 SIPAnews Alumni Forum: Diana Bruce Oosterveld Helping New Yorkers Gain Access to Health Insurance
lanned Parenthood of process for each program. Before wel- New York City, Inc. fare reform, they could apply for one (PPNYC) became the first program and simultaneously be birth control clinic in the screened for the other. United States when Mar- When the eligibility standards garet Sanger opened its were raised for public assistance, many Pdoors in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in people inadvertently lost Medicaid. 1916. Today, PPNYC serves more than Apparently, recipients were not clearly 25,000 clients annually in our three informed that even though they had centers in the Bronx, Manhattan and lost public assistance benefits, they Brooklyn. It provides comprehensive might still qualify for Medicaid. As a reproductive and sexual health ser- result, many recipients did not recertify vices—birth control options and coun- their Medicaid benefits at a city Medic- seling, emergency contraception, preg- aid office. Others, it appeared, tried to nancy testing, surgical and non-surgical do so, but encountered obstacles. abortion, pre-natal care, testing and Some were not given applications; oth- treatment for sexually-transmitted ers were told to come back after going referrals, are telling friends and family infection, and testing and counseling on job interviews, etc. (Since then, the members. Doctors and community- for HIV. federal Health Care Financing Admin- based organizations also are sending News of our PPNYC has always served clients istration has ordered city officials to clients our way. But PPNYC wants to who could not go elsewhere or did not make the application process easier.) get the word out to more people. Entitlement Advocacy have money to visit a private doctor. In the meantime, PPNYC has We are embarking on a creative Program is spreading While we remain committed to those undertaken its own efforts to provide marketing campaign, targeting our uninsured clients, we also believe that access to Medicaid for our uninsured existing uninsured clients. The theme through word-of- everyone entitled to health insurance clients. One result is the PPNYC’s for this campaign is “No health insur- should receive it. Entitlement Advocacy Program, ance? We’ve got you covered.” Aided mouth. Between 1996, when federal wel- launched last year. Through this pro- by funds from the New York State fare reform legislation took effect, and gram, an entitlement counselor is avail- Department of Health, we have hired a 1998, PPNYC’s visits covered by Med- able in each of our three centers to help Manhattan advertising firm to design a icaid fell by 25 percent. At the same our uninsured clients obtain Medicaid full spectrum of promotional and edu- time, visits by uninsured clients who or Child Health Plus, a state insurance cational materials: posters for our walls, qualified for reduced fees more than program for youths under 19. These palm-sized cards for clients to store in quadrupled, from 2,300 in 1996 to counselors have undergone extensive their wallets, appointment cards, 11,000 in 1998. Our clients are not training in the Medicaid application direct-mail post cards, and brochures. necessarily leaving PPNYC for services process by the New York City Human These materials should be in our cen- elsewhere; many are simply losing Resources Administration (HRA), ters by the time you read this. health insurance coverage and now which administers Medicaid, and the Later this year, we intend to qualifying for our reduced fees. Children’s Aid Society. Because of this expand our campaign to the full New Welfare reform raised eligibility advanced training, these counselors are York City community through radio standards for public assistance and permitted by the HRA to fill out appli- advertisements, bus shelter posters and delinked public assistance and Medic- cations and submit them on the clients’ wallscapes, brochures at health fairs, aid. This means that someone who behalf at a Medicaid office. For clients and mailings to our coalition partners qualifies for Medicaid may or may not under 19, counselors will help fill out and community-based organizations remain eligible for public assistance. applications for enrollment in Child serving the uninsured. More importantly, even if someone Health Plus. PPNYC’s Entitlement Advocacy does not qualify for public assistance, News of our Entitlement Advo- Program is only one way to begin he or she still may qualify for Medicaid. cacy Program is spreading through meeting the needs of the rising number It also means that individuals must now word-of-mouth. go through a separate application Clients, always our best source of CONTINUED ON PAGE 21
SIPAnews 3 Eddie Brown Writes: Dear SIPA... By most accounts, I live in the worst place in the world.
the top of my list of desired work loca- put in people’s minds. My belief in tions. To be honest, I didn’t even God motivates me to serve others, not know where it was. As a finalist for a to judge them. Presidential Management Internship There are some very practical, and a specialist in Mexico, I thought I earthly factors that compelled me to was bound for Washington, D.C. or take this job—and to love it. Eight Mexico City, where I’d worked. Yet weeks paid vacation a year allows me to when it came time to decide between decompress from the stresses of the being a well-paid bureaucrat in a big job and travel the world. Wearing city and a humanitarian worker making T-shirts and shorts to work every day peanuts in the middle of nowhere, it and shaving when I feel like it fits my was a surprisingly easy choice: take laid-back personality. Seeing the joy on meaning over money and experience the faces of Sierra Leonean children over security. during a food distribution is more As a commodities officer for the valuable to me than any stock option Christian humanitarian organization or six-figure salary. ✍ World Vision International, I have a OK, enough self-justification. It is job where I really feel like I’m making time to tell some stories. Let’s start a difference, not just filling a position. with the people I work with: My boss I’m responsible for the day-to-day is an ex-Croatian rebel with Serbian operations of the commodities pro- shrapnel in his stomach and a million gram here. That includes overseeing things on his mind. Part mad profes- Eddie Brown, top center, fter nine years of grue- food distributions, helping out with sor, part stand-up comedian, I have with his new friends in some civil war, Sierra proposal writing, and keeping up good learned more from his chain-smoking Sierra Leone. Leone is a complete relations with donors. soliloquies than I ever learned in the mess. It has the lowest Don’t get me wrong, I’m not halls of academia. Another interesting per capita income in the some naive idealist who thinks he is character is Ibrahim Kamara, a driver world and is among the going to change the world—I know it for World Vision. He has talked his Abottom three countries in all “misery index” indicators—infant mortality, life expectancy, etc. The UN recognizes it Seeing the joy on the faces of Sierra Leonean as among the least desirable places on the globe to invest, travel or live. children during a food distribution is In fact, it is so dangerous and volatile that not even the U.S. Marines more valuable to me than any stock option or have dared return to guard the Ameri- can Embassy in Freetown since the rebels ransacked the capital in January six-figure salary. 1999. As an ex-U.S. Marine who served in war zones in Kuwait and is an inherently nasty and brutish way out of numerous attempts by the Somalia, I find this fact particularly dis- place. My faith is one of the main rea- rebels to recruit him and was the sole concerting. sons I chose this job. People who survivor of a group of civilians fleeing When I graduated from SIPA don’t know me would classify me as a gun-toting rebels during the January with an MIA in Latin American stud- born-again Christian, but I don’t like 1999 invasion of Freetown. Two of his ies, Sierra Leone was definitely not at the connotations that term tends to CONTINUED ON PAGE 21
4 SIPAnews The South Africa that Danchin Faculty Profile: Peter Danchin returned to last year SIPA Lecturer Helps Interpret was remarkably transformed from Post-Apartheid Constitution the country he knew
By Mike Hickman as a child. SIPA News writer
or SIPA adjunct lecturer transformed from the country he knew Danchin graduated from the Peter Danchin, past and as a child. The Constitution has a University of Melbourne, where he present came full circle last sweeping bill of rights that prohibits studied law and the classics. His pri- fall in Johannesburg, South discrimination on the basis of race, mary focus was on constitutional, Africa. Danchin was 12 gender, religion, marital status and sex- international and human rights law. He when his family left South ual orientation. It protects economic came to Columbia to study with two FAfrica during the height of white rule and social rights, distinguishing it as of his heroes, the legendary human and moved to Australia. Eighteen years one of the most progressive constitu- rights lawyers Louis Henkin and Jack later, he was back as a human rights tions in the world today. By law, the Greenberg. lawyer, using his knowledge of interna- Court’s interpretations of the Consti- “I was interested in coming to tional law to help the fledgling democ- tution must take into account interna- Columbia because of Professor racy interpret its new constitution. tional law, and may consider the laws Henkin’s work on bridging constitu- Danchin, who teaches a human of other countries. tional rights and international human rights core course at SIPA, worked Each justice on the Court is rights, mainly because Australia, then four months last fall as a judicial clerk assigned two clerks, one of whom must and now, still has a deficient constitu- for the president of South Africa’s 11- be a black South African. Chaskalson’s tion from a human rights perspective,” member Constitutional Court, Chief other clerk was Lwandile Sisilana, with Danchin said. Justice Arthur Chaskalson. whom Danchin worked closely. Danchin earned a master’s in law The clerkship, which included Sisilana’s first impression of from Columbia last year. When not research into cases before the court, Danchin was of someone “quite lad- busy with his teaching duties, he helped shape the jurisprudence of the dish.” spends time preparing his doctoral the- five-year old, post-apartheid Constitu- “He had this hair and sported a sis on comparative constitutionalism tion and provided a real-life dimension small goatee,” Sisilana recalled. In little and international human rights law, to Danchin’s SIPA lectures on human time, Sisilana came to appreciate the with a focus on freedom of expression rights philosophy, instruments and depth of Danchin’s knowledge of and legal reasoning. institutions. international legal systems. Danchin, who is single and lives “It was an incredible experience “We had quite a lot of discussion near Columbia, also enjoys sports. He and a great privilege,” said Danchin, around legal philosophy. Pete’s time in competes in triathlons and plays rac- 30, sipping tea at a popular off-campus America had obviously influenced him quetball. coffee shop. because he complained about the fact In coming to Columbia, Danchin “I would sit with Justice that Australia did not have a bill of was following in the footsteps of Chaskalson and we would debate com- rights,” Sisilana said. Chaskalson. The chief justice was parative legal systems and different Danchin taught “Human Rights among a group of South African approaches to international human in International and Domestic Law lawyers who studied human rights law rights law, which is exactly what I and Institutions” for the second time at Columbia in the late 1960s and early teach.” this spring. The course is one of two 1970s. These young lawyers were With his boyish looks and tousled core requirements for students in the brought to Columbia by Greenberg, in blond hair, Danchin easily could pass human rights concentration. the hopes that they would return for a student or big-wave surfer. In “Peter has operated in different home to fight apartheid as human fact, he holds two law degrees and, in legal systems and because of his broad rights activists. addition to his teaching duties, is a legal experience is capable of preparing Mike Hickman (MIA ’01) is studying doctoral candidate at Columbia Law students who will soon be working in journalism and Latin America at SIPA. School. the field,” said J. Paul Martin, director Before beginning graduate school, he was The South Africa that Danchin of the Center for the Study of Human an advertising copywriter and broadcast returned to last year was remarkably Rights at SIPA. producer in New York City. He will intern with UNESCO in Brazil this summer.
SIPAnews 5 Alumni Volunteers Lend Time and Talents to SIPA
By Anne Burke SIPA News editor
lumnus John Grammer school four times a year to discuss cur- than what is asked of them. Some are said goodbye to SIPA riculum and development matters. responsible for the ideas behind several student life back in “We advise the dean from a prac- of SIPA’s most successful alumni activ- 1963. But he never titioner’s perspective about how to ities and development strategies. really left the school. As gear the school to a changing reality,” A few years ago, Hellmold was a volunteer career coun- said board member José Gonzales trying to come up with ways to boost Aselor who has helped thousands of (MIA ’93), a New York investment donations to SIPA’s Annual Fund. SIPA students and grads over the banker who also serves on the newly Hellmold hit upon the idea of asking years, Grammer’s ties to the school are formed advisory board for SIPA’s one or two representatives from each as strong as ever. Institute of Latin American Studies. class to solicit donations among former “It’s been nearly 40 years and I’m A 20-minute cab ride is all that classmates. The Class Chair program is still full of vim and vigor and doing my separates Gonzales from Advisory now in its second year. Fifty-three thing. It helps to keep me young,” said Board meetings. Other members cross alumni—called Class Chairs—from the Grammer, a Manhattan management entire continents and oceans—at their class of ’48 to the class of ’99 have consultant. own expense. Board member Lan signed on to the fund-raising effort. John Pfeiffer is a co-chair for the Busy people always find a way to make time. class of ’99, with former classmate Car- oline Washburn. Pfeiffer solicits dona- —Ralph Hellmold (MIA ’64) tions over the phone, squeezing in a call or two whenever he has a chance at Grammer is among hundreds of Yang (MIA ’96), until recently a well- work or in the evenings at his Brook- SIPA alumni who donate their time known TV anchor in Hong Kong, is lyn apartment. Asking for money isn’t and talents to the school. Whether bleary-eyed and jet-lagged when she easy, but Pfeiffer has a knack for it. they’re advising Dean Lisa Anderson arrives at meetings, but she says she “It’s a lot of fun. Most of the peo- on ways to update the curriculum, does not mind. ple are classmates I haven’t talked to in soliciting donations from ex-class- “Even though I paid my tuition, I a while, so we get to catch up,” said mates, or—like Grammer—offering think I still owe SIPA. The school gave Pfeiffer. “Then at the end, I sneak in a job leads to young graduates, these me a broad understanding of what is pitch for money.” alumni are SIPA’s unsung heroes. happening in the world, and that’s Many alumni said they volunteer “I really think they’re invaluable. essential to being a journalist,” said to help make SIPA affordable for those They keep this institution growing and Yang, who now runs her own produc- who would not be able to attend with- changing,” said Rodrick Dial, a tion company in Shanghai. out financial aid. Columbia development officer who Board members include respected Dean’s Advisory Board member works closely with SIPA alumni. names in diplomacy, foreign affairs, Claire Shipman (MIA ’94), NBC’s Alumni volunteers range in age business and public life. Meetings are White House correspondent, studied from newly minted graduates in their held in the mornings and conclude at the Harriman Institute with the help 20s to old-timers who attended classes with a luncheon at the Faculty House of a Foreign Language and Area Stud- in a brownstone on West 117th Street and an informal lecture by a Columbia ies fellowship. The expertise she gained when SIPA was the School of Interna- professor or visiting dignitary. helped her land her first job in broad- tional Affairs. “It’s a great way for me to stay in cast journalism, at CNN’s Moscow Membership on the 26-member touch with what’s happening in the bureau. Dean’s Advisory Board is among the world,” said Advisory Board member “I feel I owe Columbia a lot in most coveted of volunteer posts at Ralph Hellmold (MIA ’64), who also terms of where I am today,” Shipman SIPA. This “kitchen cabinet” is hand- chairs SIPA’s Annual Fund. said. picked by Anderson and meets at the Many alumni volunteers do more Gonzales won a Ford Foundation
6 SIPAnews apartment, so we’d get about 50 peo- ple,” said Rasmussen, who was recently promoted to president of Mary Kay Europe, and managing director of the cosmetics company’s holding group, Richmont Partners. Some events are more serious- minded. Gustavo Cano (MPA ’96), co-chair of international alumni for the SIPA Alumni Association, organized a two-day conference in Mexico City last March. Titled “Mexico on the Threshold of a New Century,” the event featured talks by several Colum- bia scholars and professors and marked the first major event sponsored by Columbia alumni in Mexico. In New York, Anisa Kamadoli (MIA ’98) is organizing a reception, Longtime SIPA volunteer John Grammer which will bring together graduates of (MIA ’63) shares a lighthearted moment Ajoy Chandra (MIA/MBA ’97) SIPA and the Fletcher School of Law with Meltem Aslan (MIA ’95). arranges monthly happy hours for and Diplomacy. In Washington, D.C., SIPA grads in the San Francisco area, Camille Purvis (MPA ’99) hopes to grant to study at SIPA, but would not where he runs his own Internet start- stage similar events with schools of have been able to come without an up. The Bay Area is a magnet for SIPA international affairs. extra $3,500 that former Dean Alfred grads getting into dot-com ventures, Finding time to volunteer isn’t Stepan loaned him from a discre- but how do they all find each other in easy for alumni. Shipman, for example, tionary fund. a crowded bar? is criss-crossing the country these days “For somebody coming from “I held up a copy of that book covering Vice President Al Gore’s bid Peru, that is a lot of money,” said that we all had to read for Conceptual for the White House. Pfeiffer has his Gonzales, who was a journalist in Foundations, The Political Economy of hands full as director of operations for Lima at the time. “After graduation, International Relations by Robert Adult Services for New York City’s when I got my first real salary, I paid Gilpin. I looked like a total geek.” Department of Homeless Services. back that financial aid.” In Moscow, Julie Rasmussen Hellmold, in addition to his SIPA Graduates who lend a hand out- (MIA ’90) has been hosting parties for duties, is active in the alumni associa- side of New York City are just as SIPA grads since moving to Russia in tion for his undergraduate alma mater, important as those working in the Big 1992 to launch Mary Kay Cosmetics. Harvard College. How do they do it? Apple. The festivities are usually scheduled “Busy people always find a way to From Moscow to Mexico City, around a visit by Associate Dean make time,” Hellmold said. grads organize SIPA-themed happy Robin Lewis or Harriman Institute Anne Burke (MIA ’00) was a newspaper hours, dinner parties, lectures and Director Mark von Hagen. reporter in Los Angeles for many years. She conferences. The events strengthen “We’d put an announcement in studied human rights at SIPA, and ties between alumni and the school, the ex-pat newspaper here and have all interned last summer at the Inter-Ameri- and raise the profile of the school’s the alumni come. We’d throw a big can Institute of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica. name. bash, have it catered. I’ve got a big
SIPAnews 7 MIA PROGRAMnews
Students Join Effort to Aid Ex-KLA Soldiers
Matt Craft SIPA News writer fter a week in Kosovo, ment concentration. Students enrolled groups of EPD students working over- Severine Autesserre in the workshop fan out across the seas during spring break. One group (MIA ’01) returned to globe during spring break each year to worked on business development in SIPA impressed by the work as pro-bono consultants for non- Ghana with the nongovernmental ability of Kosovars to governmental organizations. organization Aid to Artisans, while bounce back. She was The Kosovo team worked for the another worked on education reform Aamong a team of SIPA students who Geneva-based International Organiza- in Mongolia for the Soros Foundation. spent spring break interviewing former tion for Migration (IOM), whose “It’s a great way to get a feel for members of the Kosovo Liberation Information Counselling and Referral what it’s like to work in the interna- Army about their transition to civilian Service program in Kosovo is helping tional arena,” Ballman said. “You’re life. Many of these ex-rebels have lost former KLA combatants find employ- working on international projects with their homes and are struggling to feed ment and start new businesses. The an international group for interna- their families, but she said they’re interviews conducted by the three stu- tional clients.” eager to start new lives. dents assessed the effectiveness of the For Autesserre, the visit to “These people have every reason program. Kosovo did more than fill a class to be depressed,” Autesserre said. “But “We talked with a lot of former requirement. The Kosovars’ resilience, they still have the energy to start a combatants who are really grateful that she said, gave her a new outlook on business and care for a family. They still IOM is doing this for them. The her own life. want to improve their lives.” biggest complaint we heard was that “In school, you’re always worried Severine Autesserre listens Autesserre and her classmates IOM wasn’t paying people enough that ‘Oh, I have to do this and have to as IOM officials, at right, interviewed the former combatants as money,” said Karen Hirschfeld (MIA do that,’” she said. The ethnic Albani- discuss a livestock project part of the workshop requirement for ’00), who, along with Christine Kuhn ans she met, “have to start from zero. with the brother, far left, and father, center, of three the Economic and Political Develop- (MIA ’00), accompanied Autesserre. But they do it.” ex-KLA soldiers. More than 25,000 men have Matt Craft (MIA ’01) was a newspaper registered with the IOM program, far reporter and high school teacher in exceeding the group’s estimate of Louisiana before coming to SIPA. 10,000 former KLA combatants, Hirschfeld explained. Even so, Autesserre said the orga- nization’s grants have helped many ex-soldiers set up shop as carpenters, open restaurants, and buy livestock. Through IOM job referrals, others are now factory workers or mechanics. In all, the organization has assisted more than 4,000 ex-combatants since the end of the NATO air campaign. Kosovo team members Laura Ballman (MIA ’00), Ebru Erdogus (MIA ’00) and Sharifa Ali-Abdullah (PEPM) traveled to Kosovo in January to conduct research for the interviews. Kosovo team members: front row, from left, The group’s adviser was Adjunct Pro- Severine Autesserre, Ebru Erdogus, Sharifa fessor Ashok Gurung. Ali-Abdullah, and Karen Hirschfeld. Back row, Laura Ballman, adviser Ashok The Kosovo team was among 10 Gurung, and Christine Kuhn.
8 SIPAnews Exhibit Showcases Rare African Currencies
Mike Hickman SIPA News writer he Rotunda at Colum- bia’s Low Library last March became the tem- porary home for a rare collection of iron and copper currencies from TCentral and West Africa. Only in the last 20 years have these metal pieces been recognized within art circles as an important part of African history. The exhibit was sponsored by SIPA’s Institute of African Studies, Columbia University Libraries, and appropriately enough, Citibank and Chase Manhattan Bank. The 200- piece collection of tools, weapons, musical instruments, ornaments, objects of prestige and ingots revealed the intrinsic value that iron and copper have had in hundreds of African soci- eties since 500 A.D. The pieces were loaned to the Paulette Young, outreach coordinator for Institute by Philip Gould, who curated focused on the many uses of African the Institute of African Studies, and Low the exhibit. Gould is an art collector iron and copper currencies and the Library currency exhibit. and professor emeritus of art history at central role of the blacksmith in Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, African communities past and present. approximately 20 teachers who New York. According to Gould, “Traditional African societies attended the workshop. Africans liked to use iron and copper were influenced by various factors both At the workshop, teachers peered pieces as instruments of exchange internal and external,” said Young. curiously inside glass display cases at because they could always be recast “The exhibit and writings on the sub- elaborately carved hoes, shovels, and into other objects. ject by African scholars are a good way iron spears. Malene Hawkins, who “These currencies come in all to teach students that African nations teaches seventh graders at Frederick shapes and sizes and most of the did not operate in a vacuum.” Douglass Academy in Harlem, planned objects were easily recognized as sym- Iron and copper currencies con- to bring her students to the exhibit bols,” Gould said. “But the relation- tinued in use among some African during their studies of ancient African ship was so close that the actual object nations until the 1960s, when they societies. Teacher Curtis Lawrence said and the currency were interchange- were abandoned in favor of paper and the workshop will help him strengthen able.” coin money. Since then they have the Africa content of his seventh-grade In conjunction with the exhibit, become increasingly popular among history classes at the Academy. the Institute held a workshop for art collectors and dealers. Today, these The Low Library exhibit closed Harlem-area teachers. The event was metals still symbolize power and free- on April 15, but another, smaller led by the Institute’s outreach coordi- dom to many Africans. exhibit of traditional African money is nator, Paulette Young, and Aissata “It’s an area that people really on display through July 23 at the Sidikou, a lecturer of Pan-African don’t know about,” Young told the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Studies at Barnard College. Both African Art in Washington, D.C.
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SIPA Events Promote Diversity, Tolerance
Matt Craft SIPA News writer homwa Shomapande tions last February, as part of SIPA’s The purpose of the week was to pro- and Brian Leventhal first Diversity Week. The event drew mote a climate of tolerance. have much in common. about 50 students, alumni, faculty and “This is a diverse world,” O’Fla- They grew up in New staff members who discussed and herty said. “We better learn how to York’s Westchester debated topics such as affirmative operate in it.” County, only 20 minutes action, politically correct speech and The week’s activities included a Saway from each other. Their fathers self-segregation. panel discussion on diversity issues in graduated from Columbia. This “It was one of the best discus- the classroom and the workplace, and spring, both are graduating from SIPA sions I’ve ever heard in my life on these a performance by New York dancers with degrees in public administration But they don’t share skin color. While their friendship is secure, This is a diverse world. . .We better learn Shomapande and Leventhal agree that differences in race and ethnicity are explosive issues in everyday life. Find- how to operate in it. —Brendan O’ Flaherty ing ways to ease tensions, they said, is one of the biggest challenges facing the world today. topics,” said Brendan O’ Flaherty, the who expressed issues of ethnicity, gen- “We both agree that this is a very, MPA program director and economics der, sexuality, immigration and home- very important issue,” Shomapande professor who organized Diversity lessness on a stage at Teachers College. said. “We decided that we wanted to Week. In classrooms, instructors in MPA core wrestle with this topic in front of Diversity Week offered students classes brought up diversity issues as people.” and faculty members a chance to topics of discussion. O’ Flaherty’s The two students organized a explore issues surrounding identity— microeconomics class, for example, town hall-style meeting on race rela- from ethnicity to sexual preference. tackled affirmative action. Leventhal and Shomapande said Shomwa Shomapande, left, their town-hall meeting, titled “Race and Brian Leventhal Relations: A New Framework,” had organized the race relations some tense moments. But the two stu- forum. dents handled them with humor and self-deprecation. As a result, audience members relaxed and said what they thought. “It allowed people to share their ideas,” Leventhal said. Whenever a question was posed, “we had more hands than we knew what to do with.” Added Shomapande: “We wanted people to feel comfortable saying things that you might want to bite your tongue about saying at first.”
10 SIPAnews People measure you based on what you accomplish and not how old you are. Young Grad’s Career: Look Out, No Brakes
By Anne Burke SIPA News editor
sponsorship of Associate Professor Mark Gordon. After graduating from high school, Kupietzky worked on foreign affairs issues for Mayor Ehud Olmert of Jerusalem. While still in his teens, he worked as a press officer for Los Ange- les Mayor Richard Riordan and as the assistant to the manager of then-Cali- fornia Gov. Pete Wilson’s presidential campaign. In 1998, after graduating in polit- ical science from Columbia College, he was hired as a political consultant for then-Attorney General Dan Lun- gren’s campaign for governor. That spring, Kupietzky was accepted at acob Kupietzky graduates Blue Ribbon Panel on Hate Crimes, SIPA. But he didn’t want to give up from the MPA program this appointed in the wake of a shooting his work with Lungren, and Lungren spring with an impressive spree by an avowed white supremacist didn’t want to lose him. Since Kupiet- resume: consultant to a in Los Angeles. zky is the kind of guy who can keep a governor’s blue-ribbon Several of Kupietzky’s recom- lot of balls in the air at the same time, panel, foreign affairs adviser mendations were incorporated into the he decided to do both. Jto the mayor of Jerusalem, campaign panel’s final report, which Davis “I tried to be at SIPA on Mon- staffer for a state attorney general, planned to include in an omnibus, days, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, then press officer in the Los Angeles anti-hate crime legislation bill. I’d fly back to L.A. I probably made mayor’s office. Kupietzky’s contribution about seven round-trips my first The scary thing is he’s only 25. included recommendations that the semester at SIPA.” How did he do it? government reward businesses that Lungren lost to Gray Davis, but Kupietzky was only 14 when he take a leadership role in fighting xeno- the experience didn’t dull Kupietzky’s got his first job in politics, as a Jewish phobia, and that community organiza- appetite for politics. Last summer, he liaison in Los Angeles for then-U.S. tions develop hate-prevention policies. worked as a consultant to the non- Sen. John Seymour, a California “My name won’t be found on it profit New York Fair Elections Project, Republican. He’s been running at full anywhere, which is totally fine with analyzing contributions to the 1998 throttle ever since. Though he’s often me,” Kupietzky said. “I’m just happy New York governor’s race. His report the youngest person in the office, to know that if you have a good idea, is due out this month. Kupietzky said he never lets his age someone else will think it’s a good Kupietzky may be turning into a hold him back. idea, and they might actually use it, seasoned pro, but he’s not blasé. “People measure you based on and it might lead to something good.” “If you pick up the newspaper what you accomplish and not how old Kupietzky also worked last fall as and it’s talking about an event, and you are,” said Kupietzky, who grew up a teaching assistant for Visiting Profes- you’re able to say, ‘Oh, I helped plan in Los Angeles. sor George Stephanopoulos’s class on that,’ or ‘I was there with the candi- The latest feather in Kupietzky’s presidential politics. He fit the hate- date,’ or, ‘That was my idea,’ it’s really cap is the consulting work he did last crimes work into his busy schedule as exciting.” fall on California Gov. Gray Davis’s an independent study project, under
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SIPA Audiences Enjoy Speaker Smorgasbord
By Matt Craft SIPA News writer
rom former Russian Prime “This is our fate,” he said, “and, will never get sold.” Minister Victor Cher- as they say in Russia, you cannot In a two-day conference— nomyrdin to author Anna escape your fate.” “Opening the Channels: Television Quindlen, a steady stream Chernomyrdin’s was one of the and Society in the Middle East”— of diplomats, politicians, many talks that focused on economics. Middle Eastern journalists and Colum- academics and authors Claudio Loser, the director of the bia faculty members looked at the Faddressed audiences at SIPA this year International Monetary Fund’s West- recent explosion of television channels on topics as diverse as the speakers ern Hemisphere Department, and news shows in the region. themselves. explained how the agency plans to shift According to participants, shows AFL-CIO President John “from crisis management to crisis pre- beamed by satellite from London and Sweeney urged the linking of labor vention.” As part of the Journal of elsewhere are challenging the reliance rights with global trade, Luis Felipe International Affairs’ conference on on government-owned stations, which Bravo, president of Mexico’s principal shadow economies, Time magazine’s have a reputation for tiptoeing around opposition party, Partido Acción Edward Barnes discussed illegal immi- anything controversial. Nacional, updated students on his gration into the United States. “We are seeing a new generation country’s history-making presidential Journalists tackled an array of of Arab television journalists,” said elections. issues. Pete Hamill, in a speech that Moataz Demerdahs, an anchor and Azerbaijan Parliament member brought tears to the eyes of many producer for the London-based Mid- Eldar Namazov surveyed the foreign audience members, delivered a loving dle East Broadcasting Center. “We are policy scene in the Caucasus, while tribute to Mexico, where he has lived not here to do a P.R. job for the gov- Tanzanian writer and activist Gertrude on and off since the 1950s. It was the ernment.” Mangella, the secretary general of the keynote address at a symposium, SIPA journalism Professor Don- Fourth United Nations World Confer- “Images of Mexico in the U.S. ald “Pete” Johnston gasped when his ence on Women in Beijing, discussed Media.” Hamill urged Americans to friend, Anna Quindlen, the journalist the role of women in conflict resolu- look beyond the clichéd images of and novelist, told students at the MPA tion and peace negotiation in Africa. Mexico as a hotbed of corruption and Practicum, “I hate to write.” Muhammud Muslih of the C.W. Post drug trafficking. “But I love having written,” she Campus of Long Island University Humphrey Hawksley, who added, allowing Johnston to exhale. spoke at a conference titled “Peace and reports on Asia for the BBC and has “And there is no way to have the one the Future of Syria.” co-written a novel, Dragon Strike, without the other.” U.S. and Russian economic coop- sketched a scenario in which the Quindlen told students that they eration was Chernomyrdin’s topic. United States finds itself on the brink shouldn’t be intimidated about writ- Speaking to an overflow audience in of war with China. “What would we ing. “They are just words,” she said. the Dag Hammarsjkøld Lounge, he do,” he asked the audience, “if pictures “But the truth is that words, really, are urged the two countries to team up in of a massacre in Tibet came up on our everything.” a “globalization partnership.” Despite television screen?” SIPA speakers are remarkable for its grave political and economic weak- Hawksley said his point was not the breadth of their subject matter. nesses, Russia will not waver from its to alarm. But he wanted people to The Harriman Institute sponsored a commitment to a market economy, he consider what might happen if, for talk titled, “Autobiographers as said. example, an unsuspecting American Generic Cross-Dressers,” while the entrepreneur moved his toothpaste Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Associate Professor Muhammud Muslih of factory to China on the eve of a war. Sciences organized a lecture on quanti- Long Island University, former Russian “Keep the global perspective in mind,” tative analysis titled, “What Do Ani- Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin, Tanzanian activist Gertrude Mangella, he said, “or you’ll wind up with a mals Do All Day?” You probably had and author Pete Hamill. warehouse full of toothpaste tubes that to be there.
12 SIPAnews New Alumni Director Seeks to Strengthen Ties
By Matt Craft SIPA News writer
IPA’s new director of center for alumni-related activities. alumni relations will be One minute she’s on the phone happy to see this year’s planning an alumni luncheon at the crop of graduates head United Nations, the next she’s work- off into the world. Just ing out details for the school’s first one request: Please don’t black-tie gala, set for Oct. 2 at The Sbe a stranger. Plaza in New York City. The phone “I really want to keep alumni rings and it’s a grad looking for the involved in SIPA,” said Nancy Riedl, date and time of a lecture at the uni- 30. “I don’t want the relationship to versity’s Columbia Club. A minute be just a past-tense thing—‘That’s later, another grad calls looking for where I graduated from.’ I want it to information on finding a summer be a present-tense relationship.” intern. in,” said Riedl, who is single and lives Since stepping into her new job in “There are so many ways that on the Upper East Side. January, Riedl has turned her office on alumni can get involved. I’d be sur- Among Riedl’s goals are to the 15th floor of the International prised if they couldn’t find something strengthen ties between the school and Affairs Building into a sort of nerve to do that they would be interested CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 Fourth Floor Renovations Begin By Mike Hickman SIPA News writer he International Affairs Renovations are expected to be cumbersome task of moving more Building’s long-overdue complete in time for the start of classes than 400 student lockers to the open fourth floor face-lift this fall. space inside the 118th Street entrance. became noticeable last The Picker Center, which offers Glass display cabinets, which will February. Eight-foot tall the Executive MPA and other pro- showcase special exhibits, awards and sections of drywall grams for working professionals, was publications, will conceal lockers, said Twrapped in pink construction paper financed with a $1.5 million gift from Associate Dean of Administration and suddenly flanked the elevator lobby. former Dean Harvey Picker. The Finance, Joan Turner. Urgent e-mails, sent almost daily, school’s third dean, Picker put the “P” Renovations to the fourth floor warned students to remove all belong- in SIPA when he established the Mas- began in 1999 with the construction ings from lockers before spring break ter’s of Public Affairs program in of the new Altschul Auditorium. or risk losing them. 1972. Dean Lisa Anderson raised an Fund-raising efforts are continuing in The $2.25 million renovation will additional $750,000 for classroom anticipation of further renovation. create a new home for the Picker Cen- improvements. Belmont Freeman, the Manhat- ter for Executive Education, spruce up Main features of the Picker Cen- tan architectural firm that designed the the Amsterdam Avenue entrance, and ter are a reception area, administrative refurbished Alumni Auditorium and completely refurbish the fourth floor’s offices, and a seminar room equipped restored Bard Hall’s art deco dining aging and uncomfortable classrooms. with laptop connections and audio- hall at the Health Sciences campus, Some will be “smart” equipped with visual equipment. created the fourth floor’s new look high quality electronic audio-visual Work commenced over spring with the Columbia University Office equipment. break as construction crews began the of Design and Construction.
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lege are researching the crisis tion to benefit victims and and helping to write a brief- survivors of police brutality, ing book as part of a group and he has agreed to do so. research course. Later, the The former mayor, a project would need to secure Democrat, is also busy cam- funding and find local part- paigning for Vice President ners in Bangladesh, said Al Gore in his run for the Jahan, who is the editor of a White House. forthcoming book, — Anne Burke Bangladesh: Politics, Society, Economy. JOHN S. MICGIEL, director The ultimate goal would of SIPA’s East Central Euro- be publication of a paper. pean Center, believes that “But the faculty have agreed Polish studies in American ROUNAQ JAHAN has been that this cannot be pure classrooms are undergoing an concerned for years about the research for the sake of publi- marched outside the Justice important and long-overdue public health crisis caused by cation,” Jahan said. “This is Department in Washington, transformation. Today, arsenic-contaminated such a major disaster, and so D.C. with Diallo’s parents, Poland is appreciated as an ground water in her native many millions of peoples’ Kadiatou and Saikou, the intrinsically interesting coun- Bangladesh. lives are being affected that Rev. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jack- try to study, rather than as a Now, the senior research we would like it to have some son’s wife, Jacqueline, and name that crops up now and scholar at SIPA’s Southern immediate impact.” Kweisi Mfume, president of again in European history, he Asian Institute is trying to do As many as 80 million the National Association for said. something about it. Jahan people are at risk from arsenic the Advancement of Colored “The trend in the United and five SIPA colleagues— contamination in Bangladesh People. The group urged fed- States is to open up the way aided by Columbia student and India. Of those infected, eral prosecution of the offi- we assess Poland by globaliz- researchers—are in the initial one in 10 may die. cers, who fired 41 bullets at ing it, by putting it more in stages of a project aimed at In the early 1970s, the unarmed African immi- the context of European analyzing the crisis and UNICEF encouraged mostly grant. development,” Micgiel said. potential solutions from a rural dwellers to dig tube Dinkins said the officers To help school teachers social science and public poli- wells as an alternative to should have been convicted and college instructors adapt cy perspective. drinking pond water, a major of a serious crime, though a to the changing pedagogics, A number of organiza- source of diarrhea and bacter- lesser one than second- Micgiel last March organized tions and institutions are ial diseases. No one knew it at degree murder. “They moved a one-day workshop at SIPA, approaching the crisis from the time, but many wells were with what I view as an utter “Poland 2000: A Conference scientific, technical and med- heavily contaminated with disregard for his rights and for Educators.” The event ical angles. “But many of the arsenic. safety,” he said. drew about 40 high school social science issues are not Working with Jahan on Dinkins is still battling and college teachers from the being explored,” Jahan said. the project are SIPA faculty New York City Mayor New York area. Lectures “For example, what is the members SHUBHAM Rudolph Giuliani over included discussions of the effect in terms of gender, CHAUDHURI, MARGARET appointment of an indepen- latest trends in Polish litera- families, or the communities? MADAJEWICZ, STEVE RAYN- dent police monitor, one of ture, culture, painting, con- Are women more affected, or ER, ALEXANDER PFAFF, and the recommendations of the temporary affairs and politics. children?” PHILIP OLDENBURG. Mollen Commission, which Micgiel, also an adjunct pro- “And what are the various — Anne Burke Dinkins appointed to investi- fessor at SIPA, talked about policy choices? If we shift to a gate police corruption in the the significance of Poland’s particular strategy, who will Former New York Mayor early 1990s. entry into the European have to bear that burden DAVID DINKINS was among “The one thing Giuliani Union in 2003. Poland is more? Would it be the prominent African-Ameri- desperately wishes to avoid is among countries involved in women, or the men? And cans protesting the March any kind of oversight of the EU accession negotiations. what will be the various eco- acquittals of four police offi- police department,” Dinkins The purpose of the nomic costs?’’ cers in the killing of Amadou said. conference was to educate Students from SIPA, the Diallo. Dinkins said he was asked teachers so that they will School of Public Health, Dinkins, who teaches by Diallo’s mother to be incorporate materials on con- Barnard and Teachers Col- public policy at SIPA, chairman of a Diallo Founda- temporary Poland into their
14 SIPAnews “Very busy,” she said. “It’s a lot of work.” Fortu- nately, she has some help. The co-chair is IRA KATZ- NELSON, Columbia’s Rug- gles Professor of Political Sci- ence. The theme of the Aug. 31-Sept. 3 event is “Political Science as Discipline? Recon- sidering Power, Choice and the State at Century’s End.” Besides preparing for the annual meeting, Milner taught two classes in the curricula, Micgiel said. It was out of their homes, the Poles spring and had six papers in complaints led Dinkins to among a number of educa- remember that they, too, progress. One, an essay on reduce the rate of subsidized- tional events for students and were driven out of theirs.” how the form of a country’s housing placements, result- teachers offered by SIPA The conference was spon- government affects its trade ing in a surge in the family regional institutes, in sored by SIPA’s East Central relations, is scheduled to shelter population. exchange for federal funding European Center, the Pilsud- appear in the American Polit- The number of families in for language instruction and ski Institute, the Adam Mick- ical Science Review this sum- homeless shelters was about scholarships. iewicz Endowment for Polish mer. Eventually, Milner plans 3,000 in 1990, and peaked at The conference included Studies, the International to turn her forthcoming 5,000 within a year. Other a photographic exhibit, spon- Studies National Resource essays on trade and democra- factors were the recession and sored by the Pilsudski Insti- Center, the West European cy into the basis for another the increasing use of private, tute of New York, on Polish National Resource Center, book. nonprofit shelters rather than children deported to the and the Educational Com- —Matt Craft hotels, O’Flaherty said. Soviet Union between 1940 mission of the Polish Ameri- — Anne Burke and 1941. The deportations can Congress. Associate Professor of Eco- were conducted as part of the —Anne Burke nomics BRENDAN O’FLA- Bolshevik policy of “liquida- HERTY’S paper in the latest tion of dangerous anti-Soviet The program co-chair for the Journal of Urban Economics elements” following the American Political Science debunks the theory behind Soviet occupation of eastern Association’s annual meeting the “Dinkins Deluge.” Poland in September 1939. in Washington, D.C. in O’Flaherty’s piece, co- About one-in-five of the August is HELEN MILNER, written with former SIPA approximately 500,000 professor of political science economics instructor young deportees died due to and a member of SIPA’s MICHAEL CRAGG, rejects inhumane conditions. Institute of War and Peace conventional wisdom about The exhibit helped bring Studies. It’s an honor, sure, the dramatic rise in the family public attention to an atrocity but it also keeps her busy. population in New York that Poles believe has been City’s homeless shelters largely ignored by historians. between 1990 and 1993. The display of black-and- Popular thinking held that white photos included dis- families flooded the shelters Adjunct Professor HERBERT turbing images of sickly and to try and take advantage of SPIRER’S work in the applica- emaciated children, many of then-Mayor David Dinkins’ tion of statistics to human whom worked as slave labor aggressive policy of placing rights has earned him mem- in the northern reaches of homeless families into subsi- bership in the International Soviet Russia. dized housing. Statistical Institute, based in “This is one of the reasons “We found that was Voorburg, Netherlands. that the people of Poland absolutely untrue,” O’Fla- Spirer, aided by his wife connect emotionally with the herty said. The major factor and research partner, Louise, Chechens,” Micgiel said. “As behind the upswing was just has spent the past 15 years Chechens are being driven the opposite: Widespread applying statistics to human
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Alumni Around the Globe
By Robin Lewis Associate Dean rights. His 1999 publication, ne of the most satisfy- jun.zhang @uk.pwcglobal. State Violence in Guatemala ing aspects of my work com. 1960 to 1996: A Quantitative Ois following SIPA Reflection, written with alumni in their careers as they Patrick Ball and Paul Kobrak, fan out across the world and Paris is now available on the Web in flourish professionally. In my English and Spanish at travels for the school, I often JOHN PIETRI (MIA ’90) is http://hrdata.aaas.org/ have the opportunity to see now vice president in the ciidh/index.html. SIPA graduates and catch up Corporate Finance Advisory The Spirers will be in on their careers, and I also hear Group at Société Générale. Montreux, Switzerland, this from former students via e- He can be reached at: September when Herbert mail or telephone on a regular [email protected]. speaks at an International basis. To share my experiences, HYUN CHO (’94/PEPM Association of Official Statis- of Nuclear Weapons: A I have put together the follow- ’95) has been temporarily ticians conference on statis- Debate, which he co- ing bits and pieces of alumni assigned by the Korean gov- tics and human rights. His authored with Scott Sagan. news. ernment to the OECD Secre- topic will be educating work- His writing carved out a place tariat in Paris for a few years. ers in nongovernmental in the pantheon of political He is also working part-time organizations about the use theory and earned him the London on a doctoral degree at our of statistics in human rights. tag “dean of the neo-realist French partner-institution, The ISI, with 2,000 school.” But he’d prefer to MAX TRAUTMAN (MIA ’92) l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques members in 120 countries, call his theory “structural is now executive director of de Paris (Sciences Po). seeks to develop and improve realism.” Emerging Markets Trading YUKO NAKAJIMA (MIA statistical methods and their Waltz worked on his first for Goldman Sachs Interna- ’91) is an attaché at the application through the pro- book, Man, the State, and tional in London. Japanese Embassy in Paris, motion of international activ- War, as a research associate at DAN WHITAKER (MIA where she oversees European ities and cooperation. the Institute of War and Peace ’91) is associate director of affairs. Her e-mail is: —Anne Burke Studies in the early 1950s. He National Economic Research [email protected]. went on to teach at the Uni- Associates (NERA) and is Every three years, the Ameri- versity of California, Berkeley, reachable at: danielwhitak- can Political Science Associa- until his retirement in 1997. [email protected]. Bangkok tion picks one of the field’s He has since returned to the JOE HURD (MIA ’94), most distinguished scholars institute as, once again, an despite repeated threats to Overlooking the busy Chao for its highest honor, the adjunct professor and a return to the United States, is Phraya River, I had a wonder- James Madison Award. This research associate. still enjoying London as a ful dinner in March with a past September, the recipient Even though he is “offi- solicitor at Linklaters & group of SIPA alumni here. was KENNETH WALTZ, who cially retired,” Waltz stays Alliance. He’s at: jhurd@lin- The dinner was co-hosted by has returned to SIPA’s Insti- busy. He is teaching, revising klaters.com. a member of SIPA’s adjunct tute of War and Peace Stud- papers for publication, and JIANJUN (ALLAN) faculty, ASHOK GURUNG ies. preparing a book on political ZHANG (MIA ’96) has left (MIA ’93), senior program His best known books, by theory. Beijing to work for PriceWa- officer at the Trace Founda- his own account, are Man, the “As long as I enjoy it,” he terhouseCoopers in London, tion in New York. State, and War: A Theoretical said, “I’m going to keep where he is senior associate in Joining us were three pro- Analysis, Theory of Interna- doing it.” Management Consulting fessionals from the United tional Politics and The Spread —Matt Craft Services. Find him at: jian- Nations Economic and Social
16 SIPAnews has his own consulting busi- (MIA ’99), who now works ness, Financial Advisory Ser- at Johnson Controls in Singa- vices ([email protected]). Both pore, where he is director of have weathered the Russian Performance Contracting for financial crisis and give at Southeast Asia. And I also least some credit to their had a brief visit from DZIU- SIPA training for having been NIK AGHAJANIAN (MIA ’98), able to do so. who is back in Armenia at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she is in charge of Elsewhere information at the Policy Planning Department. She JULIET WURR (MIA ’89), can be contacted at: who occupies a special place [email protected]. in SIPA history as the founder Finally, I had a long and of the SIPA Follies, has fin- bracing e-mail from PAULA ished her State Department HACOPIAN (MIA ’97), who Commission for Asia and the Hong Kong posting in Damascus and is has just finished up a very dif- Pacific: NGUYEN KIM XUAN now running the U.S. gov- ficult and dangerous assign- (MIA ’94), a Vietnamese I spent a lovely afternoon in ernment’s American Center ment for the United Nations national who is social affairs November with ALEC in Alexandria, Egypt. She in Tajikistan. After describing officer in the Social Develop- MCCABE (MIA ’93) and would love to see any SIPA the rigors of her work, Paula ment Division; VISALAYA KIRSTI HASTINGS (MIA types who are in Alexandria. wrote: HIRUNPIDOK (MIA ’95), ’94). Alec runs the news side She is at: [email protected]. “But beyond all these who has just joined the same of Bloomberg in Hong Kong I had a nice e-mail and words and tales, allow me to division in the Human ([email protected]) phone chat with JEREMY compliment SIPA for the Resources Development Sec- and Kirsti does the same at HARRIS (MIA ’95), who left excellent education it provid- tion; and NEEMA MAJMU- Dow Jones (kirsti.hastings@ Bangkok, where he was with ed. . . . Sure, I still can’t run a DAR (MIA ’94), an econom- cor.dowjones.com). In their PriceWaterhouseCoopers, regression (sorry!), but I ics affairs officer. spare time, they are building a and moved to Paris, where he know what it is and I under- Also with us were BRAD family: their charming is senior logistics consultant stand why it should be done. MYERS (MIA ’98), who is daughter Maja has been for a start-up Internet com- I also can’t write an economic working with A.T. Kearney joined by Lucas Kai McCabe, pany specializing in logistics treatise, but I understand the on a restructuring project for who entered this world on solutions for Web merchants. relevance of macroeconomic one of Thailand’s largest Dec. 12, 1999 at a whopping Jeremy says that in two years stability and the principles banks, and his wife, Laura (a 8 pounds and 11 ounces. he will either be rich or underlying World Bank and Princeton graduate, but we’ll Let’s have that SIPA prelimi- unemployed. He’d love to IMF policies. I know how to forgive her), director of the nary application form right hear from old SIPA friends at: read the fine print about Thailand office of the now! [email protected]. methodologies, I understand National Democratic Insti- Also seen was Alec’s step- MONISH KUMAR (MIA that all conclusions must be tute. brother, ADI IGNATIUS ’95) has left Booz, Allen & substantiated . . . two years Seen elsewhere in (Zuckerman Fellow, ’90- Hamilton to join the Internet after graduation, I have no Bangkok was JONATHAN ’91), who is deputy editor of frenzy as vice president for doubt that I chose the best STROMSETH (MIA Time Asia. Adi can be found Strategy and Business Devel- program to help me reach my ’90/Ph.D. ’98), who is about at: adi_ignatius@time maga- opment at OnMoney. Find professional goals.” to open the new Hanoi office zine. com. him at: mkumar@ Paula has just moved on of the Asia Foundation, onmoney.com. to a new UN posting in which he will head as director Visiting New York recent- Guatemala and would love to of Vietnam Programs. He Moscow ly was KONSTANTIN hear from SIPA friends at: will join his wife, LISA NG SAKHAROv (MIA ’95), who is [email protected]. BOW (MIA ’95), who already I had the chance to talk with now deputy general manager is hard at work in her new ANDREI KUTIENKOV (MIA of Komsomolskaya Pravda in position with UNDP in ’90), who is CEO of Inter- Moscow. He’s at: SAK- Hanoi. pharma (andreyku@dat [email protected]. aforce.net) and VLADIMIR Also in town was KUZNETZOV (MIA ’90), who BALACHANDER JAYARAMAN
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Class Chair Program Aids Annual Fund
ow in its second year, the SIPA We have a five-year goal to Ray Christopher Johnson, MPA ’89 [email protected] Class Chair program was cre- increase the fund to $1 million per Nated as a way for alumni volun- year, with 50 percent alumni participa- Alexander Mols Fraser, MPA ’90 teers to generate support among their tion. If you would like to learn more [email protected] former classmates for the SIPA Annual about the annual fund, please contact Sebastian Corradino, MPA ’91 Fund. Giving to the Annual Fund is your class chair at the e-mail or phone [email protected] the most common way for SIPA grad- number below. If you are interested in Sandeep Dalal, MIA ’91 uates to support current students and volunteering for your class, please con- [email protected] the school. 100% of the funds go tact Senior Development Officer Peter Scott Buckey, MPA ’92 directly to student financial aid. Rodrick Dial at [email protected] [email protected] or (212) 870-2414. James Michael Lonergan, MPA ’92 [email protected] IN MEMORIUM Harrison Parker, MIA ’48 Yuko Usami, MIA ’77 (deceased) [email protected] Kenneth Lawrence Blacklow, MPA ’93 Harrison Parker [email protected] 1924-2000 Albert L. Seligmann, MIA ’49 Leonard J. Battifarano, MIA ’79 Class of 1948 home: 703-660-5920 or [email protected] Michael Tatu Castlen, MPA ’93 [email protected] [email protected] First Editor of the Michael F. Heller, MPA ’79 Journal of International Charles D. Cook, Esq., MIA ’50 [email protected] Michael R. Chase, MIA ’93 Affairs work: 860-435-8024 or [email protected] [email protected] Daniel L. Herman, MIA ’79 SIPA Class Chair Scott Berrie, MIA ’94 1999-2000 [email protected] Dagmar Gunther-Stirn, MIA ’55 [email protected] home: 860-635-1582 Cecelia P. Caruso, MIA ’80 [email protected] Gregory R. Dalton, MIA ’94 Peter D. Ehrenhaft, MIA ’57 [email protected] [email protected] Zina Gurin, MIA ’81 [email protected] Constance Hunter-Dupuy, MIA ’94 Wilder K. Abbott, MIA ’61 [email protected] [email protected] Michael A. Pettis, MIA ’81 [email protected] Emily Marino Baugher, MIA ’96 Madeleine A. Conway, MIA ’61 [email protected] home: 203-227-1174 or Kirk P. Schubert, MIA ’82 [email protected] home: 203-637-7478 or Thomas David Zweifel, MIA ’96 [email protected] [email protected] John A. Grammer, Jr., MIA ’63 [email protected] Charles Alfred Santangelo, MPA ’83 Robert Boccio, MPA ’97 [email protected] [email protected] Ralph O. Hellmold, MIA ’64 work: 212-399-6555 Arlene Renee Barilec, MIA ’84 Patrick Roy Andrew Ford, MPA ’97 [email protected] [email protected] George H. Shenk, MIA ’67 [email protected] Donna E. Fishman, MPA ’84 Christopher Joseph Loso, MPA ’97 [email protected] [email protected] Jens Ulltveit-Moe, MIA ’68 home: 011-47-22-490-503 (Norway) Sharyn Menegus Taylor, MIA ’85 Patrick Vatel, MPA ’98 [email protected] [email protected] Andre D. Lehmann, MIA ’73 [email protected] Mr. Eamon C. Moynihan, MIA ’86 John W. Pfeiffer, MPA ’99 [email protected] [email protected] Patricia A. Samwick, MIA ’75 [email protected] Errika Kalomiris, MPA ’87 Caroline Washburn, MPA ’99 home: 212-942-3281 [email protected] Claudette M. Mayer, MIA ’76 [email protected] Ranjan Olin Bose, MIA ’88 [email protected] James Leitner, MIA ’77 [email protected]
18 SIPAnews Grad Helps Retirees Find Fulfillment By Raffi Khatchadourian hen Richard “Dick” gious groups and government Rowson has made dozens Rowson (MIA ’50) agencies by hooking them up of other matches. Ross Wgot a call from a with volunteer business exec- Grantham, a New Zealand small, Washington, D.C.-area utives and professionals. Like business executive transplant- nonprofit organization that Owen, who has left the For- ed to Washington, D.C., is needed help drawing up a tune 500 world for her own drawing up a business plan for marketing plan, he knew consulting business, some the National Career Academy exactly what to do. NESC volunteers are still in Coalition, a nonprofit which Rowson, director of the the work force. The majority, provides vocational training Executive Service Corps of however, are retirees looking to young people. Washington, D.C., tele- for the fulfillment and Charles McConnell, a phoned his friend Cheryl B. rewards that come with doing retired Wall Street chief finan- Owen, a 25-year veteran of good work. cial officer, is helping a Wash- the public relations and mar- The NESC is only one ington, D.C. charter school keting world who was inter- among a growing number of arrange a real estate deal and Europe/Radio Liberty. Row- I really take pleasure ested in volunteering with a organizations based on the bank financing so it can move son remained with the U.S. nonprofit. principle that retired profes- to a more favorable location. government-funded broad- out of seeing someone “I said, ‘Cheryl, I’ve got sionals and business execu- “The school didn’t know any- cast organization through an interesting assignment for tives have a wealth of experi- thing about those things and some of the iciest patches of else succeed, especially you.’ She and I went out to ence and expertise that he knows all about it,” Row- the Cold War, and helped if I had a little part meet the people at the non- should not be wasted. More son said. shape coverage of events such profit. They liked her, we and more retirees are signing “I really take pleasure out as the Cuban Missile Crisis in helping. drew up an agreement, and up with these organizations. of seeing someone else suc- and the assassination of Presi- we were off to the races,” said Lazy days filled with fish- ceed, especially if I had a little dent Kennedy. Returning to Rowson, 75, during an inter- ing, golf and matinee movies part in helping,” he said. the United States in 1969, view at the Washington, D.C. are fun for a while, Rowson Rowson started working Rowson left behind his work apartment he shares with his said, but once the initial with professional volunteers as a “cold warrior” and wife, Elena. euphoria wears off, retirees two years ago, when he entered publishing, working Matching accomplished find that “it’s not enough.” became director of the as director for Duke Universi- business executives and pro- “The mythology of retire- NESC’s Washington office. ty Press in Durham, North fessionals with deserving non- ment is changing,” Rowson He established the Washing- Carolina. Today, when not profit organizations is the lat- said, pushing aside a lock of ton, D.C. affiliate earlier this busy with his ESC duties, he est professional calling for his straight, silver hair. “Peo- year. works as a consultant helping Rowson, who already has ple are finding that it is really Rowson, who grew up in authors get their work pub- enjoyed successful careers in exciting to retire because you Beverly Hills, served in the lished. foreign affairs education, can do a lot of interesting Navy from 1944 to1947. Rowson sets aside plenty broadcast journalism, pub- things that apply the skills you Two years later, he enrolled in of time for fun. He and Elena lishing and the military. learned in life.” Columbia’a School of Inter- are fond of concerts, dance The Executive Service Today, Owen is busy writ- national Affairs, now SIPA. recitals and the theater. The Corps of Washington, D.C. is ing a marketing plan to help After earning a master’s couple summers at their vaca- one of 45 nationwide affiliates the Interstitial Cystitis Associ- degree, Rowson spent 12 tion home in Cape Cod, Raffi Khatchadourian (MIA ’00) is concentrat- of the New York-based ation of Rockville, Maryland, years at the Foreign Policy Massachusetts, often joined ing in International National Executive Service reach a wider audience. The Association, then moved to by their two grown sons and Media and Communica- Corps (NESC). The private, association provides informa- Munich to take a job as direc- two grandchildren. tions at SIPA. He is the nonprofit NESC each year tion and support to people tor of policy and planning for “It’s a full life,” said Row- editor of Community Affairs, a newsletter helps thousands of nonprofit with chronic inflammation of Radio Free Europe, now son, laughing. about Columbia and its organizations, schools, reli- the bladder. known as Radio Free neighborhood.
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Grad Loves Broadcast Life (Once She Gets Out of Bed)
By Laura Kreutzer
NN anchor and SIPA most of Hong Kong’s 6.8 the English-language news she sometimes feels as if she grad Karuna Shinsho million residents are in deep program, “Today’s Japan,” never left. Cloves many aspects of REM, arriving at CNN Inter- for NHK, Japan’s national She spends a good part of her job: the intellectual chal- national’s Asia Pacific Head- public television network. her working day conducting lenge, the fast pace of a news- quarters in the heart of Hong The 25-minute daily research on international room, and the exposure to Kong’s financial district at show featured stories about issues—just as she did at people and cultures from 3:30 a.m. By the time she economic, political and cul- SIPA. Her viewers are not around the world. The hours scans the news wires, pre- tural issues in Japan. unlike her professors; if she are a different story. pares for the morning’s inter- Although Shinsho was confi- does well, they let her know; “I’m a night owl,” said views, and sits down in front dent of her reporting skills, if she doesn’t, she hears CNN Anchor Karuna Shinsho (MIA ’94). “I hate of the camera, it’s still only she wasn’t sure she was up to about that too. Shinsho (MIA ’94) on the waking up early in the 6:00 a.m. the challenge intellectually. “Half of me feels that, oh job in Hong Kong cover- morning.” For the next three and The solution, she decided, my god, I’m not out of ing the 10th anniversary of the Tiannamen Square Hate it or not, Shinsho, half hours, Shinsho anchors was to study international school yet,” said Shinsho, uprising. 32, stumbles out of bed when four live segments of CNN’s affairs. After checking out the laughing. Asia-Pacific morning news possibilities, Shinsho settled CNN International’s program, “CNN This Morn- on SIPA. Asia-Pacific programs reach ing,” and co-hosts “Asian “At the time, I was cover- an estimated 26 million Edition,” a 15-minute live ing Japan for viewers from households in 29 countries news show geared toward around the world,” she said, throughout Asia, making international business travel- “so I wanted to learn more Shinsho’s one of the best- ers and global viewers. about how other countries known faces in Hong Kong “It’s a pretty grueling and other scholars look at TV news. schedule,” said Shinsho, who Japan.” Shinsho said she doesn’t is single. “It’s not just a half “You really have to know mind the double takes and hour show in the morning what you’re talking about. autograph requests. and then we’re done.” You have to have a deeper “Most of the time, you’re But she’s not complain- understanding of the issues, just looking straight into the ing. Shinsho said that the sac- so you can make your inter- black hole of the camera and rifices are well worth it. views more interesting and you don’t know who’s “It’s great to be able to more educational,” Shinsho watching,” she said. “So broaden my horizons and explained. when you do hear comments deal with faraway countries After graduating with a from people that they watch that I’ve never been to.” regional concentration in the show, it’s great.” Shinsho, whose mother is East Asia, Shinsho took a job Laura Kreutzer (MIA ’00) Japanese and father Ameri- as anchor for the Singapore interned last summer at can, was born and raised in television show, “Asia Busi- Bloomberg News in Hong Hawaii, but moved with her ness News,” where she Kong. Before coming to SIPA, family to Tokyo at age 13. In remained for three and a half she was an English teacher and interpreter in Japan, where she 1990, she graduated from years. She joined CNN’s was a regular viewer of Tokyo’s Sophia University Hong Kong team in the Karuna Shinsho on Today’s with a major in political sci- spring of 1999. Japan. ence. Her first big break in Though thousands of broadcast journalism came miles and six years separate when she was hired to anchor her from SIPA, Shinsho said
20 SIPAnews New Alumni Director Seeks to meet for drinks after work or that, she was a fund-raiser is to organize other large Strengthen Ties attend SIPA-sponsored lec- for the Bronx Zoo. Though pockets of alumni in Lon- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 tures, Riedl wants graduates no gardener herself, Riedl don, San Francisco and to feel tied to the school no loves greenery; the win- Tokyo. Getting in touch alumni scattered around the matter where they are. dowsill in her office is with alumni is easy, she said. world. One plan she’s work- “You can still be part of crowded with potted plants The hard part is finding peo- ing on is to encourage fac- SIPA once you’ve physically which enjoy a bit of after- ple in those cities who are ulty members who are trav- left the building,” she said. noon sun. In her spare time, willing to do the legwork. eling outside the country to Riedl speaks from experi- she volunteers as a board “I can’t spend my time hook up with alumni, much ence. She’s president of the member for the Pleasant Vil- in Tokyo to set up a happy in the way that Associate New York chapter of her lage Community Gardens, hour,” she said, “unfortu- Dean Robin Lewis gets own alumni association at which cares for two lots in nately.” together for lunches and the University of Dayton, East Harlem. dinners with SIPA grads on from which she graduated in In the short term, Riedl SIPA grads interested his frequent recruiting trips 1991 with a degree in com- wants to see stronger SIPA in starting alumni organiza- to far-flung locations. munications. alumni organizations in tions in any city are encour- Getting alumni involved Riedl came to SIPA from Washington, D.C. and New aged to contact Riedl with SIPA often means sim- the New York Botanical Gar- York City, where the bulk of at (212) 854-8598 or by ply getting them together, den, where she was director graduates wind up. Follow- e-mail at nr290@columbia. Riedl said. Whether they of new membership. Before ing that, her next big project edu.
Eddie Brown Writes: Dear the world I’d rather live. I’m Helping New Yorkers Gain SIPA... on the frontlines of the Access to Health Insurance CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 human experience, seeing CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 the worst, but also the best brothers joined the rebels in sides of humanity. Children of the uninsured. PPNYC the early 1990s. They were still play outside; cultural life does not have the capacity killed not long ago during is vibrant; and families love to screen everyone—nor rebel infighting. and look out for each other, should we. If individuals Violence continues to despite the destruction and are entitled to Medicaid plague Sierra Leone despite divisiveness of civil war. I’m benefits, the government the July 1999 Lome Peace American as apple pie, but I should take responsibility Accords that outlined a don’t miss the United States for enrolling them. To have power-sharing arrangement at all. (OK, I miss the Den- a real impact and ensure between the rebels and the ver Broncos and Taco Bell, that all those eligible are democratically elected gov- but not much else.) enrolled in Medicaid, there ernment. While the peace in light of the extreme vio- So that is my life after must be systematic changes process has been less than lence this country has graduate school. SIPA, with to the entire Medicaid perfect, it has renewed hope endured: infants’ hands its economic graphs and application process to make in the future and allowed hacked off with machetes, political theories, seems like it less onerous and more organizations like World young girls gang-raped, fam- a million years ago. I still accessible to potential Vision to provide aid to pre- ilies burned alive in their think that New York is the applicants. PPNYC urges viously inaccessible rebel- homes, children who are greatest city on earth, but it city government to work held territories in the north mutilated, injected with is not the only city and it is toward realizing this goal. and east of the country. drugs, and forced to kill good to see how the rest of Diana Bruce Oosterveld I am based in the south- their families and join the the world lives. (MPA ’97), PPNYC’s man- ern provincial capital of Bo, rebel “movement.” Well, the helicopter to ager for marketing and out- which is the base for most of I admit Sierra Leone is Freetown is about to land, reach, helped develop the our upcountry operations. It not a nice place to live. I’m so I better close this letter Entitlement Advocacy Pro- gram. For information about is a sleepy and beautiful exposed daily to the horren- now. Hope you enjoy your this program or to receive town where people smile dous consequences of summer. And, as graduation marketing materials, please and wave and often call out human evil and greed. (Illicit rolls around, I hope you all contact her at diana. ooster- my name when I pass by. diamond mining has fueled find jobs that make you as [email protected]. Eddie Murphy is hugely the war.) I get malaria and happy as I am. popular here, so my name is weird tropical skin condi- instantly remembered and tions. I haven’t had a hot Sincerely yours, fondly repeated. Co-workers shower in months. Until Eddie Brown jokingly call me the Mayor recently, curfew was 6 p.m. of Bo because I am so well Now that it is 11 p.m., the Eddie Brown (MIA ’99) is known and liked. highlight of my social life is from Denver, Colorado. He The affection is mutual. Friday night bingo at the served in the Marines from Sierra Leoneans are the Nigerian Peacekeepers Offi- 1989 to 1993. At SIPA, he friendliest, gentlest people cers’ Club. wrote for Slant magazine. I’ve ever known—a sad irony Yet there is no place in
SIPAnews 21 Classnotes Thank you! The Office of Career Services and the Office of External Relations would like to thank all alum- ni for participating in the various alumni receptions, panels and other activities hosted during the 1999-2000 academic year. Your generosity in taking time out of your busy schedule to attend these networking events is very much appreciated by SIPA students, faculty and staff. Thank you `all again for your participation and we look forward to seeing you all at next year’s events. Compiled by Mike Hickman Ruth landed on her feet. poetry and short prose to 1959 1971 She’s currently executive novels and journalism. Since As chairman of the legal As director of marketing for director of the Los Angeles 1991, Gabriel has had two committee of the Associa- the University of Houston, Chamber Orchestra. eliel- novels published and filed a tion of Americans and Cana- SUSAN SNYDER ROSTHAL, [email protected]. series of literary columns dians in Israel (AACI), MIA, has been on a roll. Last with Jurnalul Literar and IRWIN HEIMOWTIZ, MIA, spring, the American Mar- A year after graduation, JEF- Luceafarul, two literary lobbies against proposed keting Association and FREY KASHIDA, MIA, left a magazines back in his native changes in the Israeli income Women in Communications job at UNDP to work with Bucharest. From 1993 to tax code on behalf of all 28 honored her for her work on toilets, tofu and elevators. As 1997 he covered the United IRWIN HEIMOWTIZ immigrant associations in the university’s advertising a consumer market Nations for the daily Roma- Israel. When not helping campaign. [email protected]. researcher, Jeffrey worked nia Llibera, also of immigrants from financial for various New York state Bucharest and currently con- ruin, Irwin works as a part- companies for five years until tributes to Lumea Libera ner in the law firm of he established his own mar- Romaneasca, a Romanian Heruti, Heimowitz & Co, in 1973 ket research business in weekly publication in New Tel Aviv. He practices inter- White Plains, New York. He York City. JOHN KUHN BLEIMAIER, sold it a few years later, yet national law, specializing in MIA, is still telling it like it is continued his adventures in private and corporate mat- from his log cabin deep in capitalism, working as a con- ters in the United States, the windy, poplar wooded sultant for several New York- Israel and other countries— mountains of New Jersey. In 1980 based Japanese companies. from real estate to interna- October, he delivered a lec- After working within the STEPHEN HUNT After a stint in Seattle, Jef- tional matrimony cases. ture at Moscow University international banking, trade frey is back in Tokyo and [email protected]. on the need for continued and finance industry for 14 wants to create a manage- general education, with years, LYNN G. LINDSAY, ment team to take advantage exposure to the masterpieces MIA, finally threw in the of the next venture capital of western civilization, in an towel. He is happy now as explosion out of Japan. He 1963 era of ever-greater technical finance director for People asks all interested SIPA STEPHEN HUNT, MIA, who specialization. An avid auto- Incorporated, a small human alums to drop him a line. studied Africa at Columbia, mobile racer, John and his services agency with offices 01181-3-5688-5521. Or e- is now the executive vice Cosworth head “16 valve” beside the Mississippi River mail: jkashida@ ace-denken. president and chief operat- brought home autocross tro- in St. Paul, Minnesota. com. ing officer of Cathay Inter- phies from the Delaware Val- [email protected]. JOHN KUHN national Ltd. He lives in ley, Winchester, Virginia and BLEIMAIER Hong Kong. Tampa, Florida. He also had an article published in Conde Nast’s Russian peri- 1978 1981 SUSAN AARONSON, MIA, odical, Mvogue, on the auto- LAURIE A. BRAND, MIA, 1968 mobile in the next century. just completed a book on was promoted last January BLEIMAIER@aol. com. how nongovernmental orga- PATRICIA M. CLOHERTY, from associate professor to nizations have influenced the MIA, is a special limited professor of international debate over trade and glob- partner at Patricof & Co. relations at the University of alization, to be published by Ventures, Inc. in New York. Southern California. Johns Hopkins Press. She is Last fall she participated in 1976 also the author of a history “A Celebration of SIPA After 14 years in interna- MEREDITH WOO CUM- of the GATT called Trade Women,” an alumni event tional banking and manage- MINGS, MIA, is an associate PATRICIA M. and the American Dream held at the University Club ment consulting in New professor of political science CLOHERTY and a primer relating ordi- in New York City. She led a York, Los Angeles and Hong at Northwestern University. nary people’s daily lives, panel discussion on “Balanc- Kong, RUTH L. ELIEL, Her latest book, The Devel- entitled Are There Trade Offs ing Public/Private Sector MIA, finally figured out opment State, was published When Americans Trade? Interests and Careers” along what she wanted to do when last fall. In addition to teach- with Elizabeth Mathieu ’79, she grew up. In 1991 she ing, she is busy working on a President and CEO, Neu- became the managing direc- research project on eco- berger Berman Trust Co. tor of the renowned nomic reform in East Asia and Professor Merit Janow, Lewitzky Dance Company 1979 for the United Nations Director of SIPA’s Interna- in Los Angeles, helping the Romanian GABRIEL PLESEA, Research Institute for Social tional Economic Policy company recover from the MIA, was a management Development. mwc@merle. program. brink of bankruptcy. The information systems special- acns.nwu.edu. SUSAN AARONSON company closed in 1997 ist before turning to literary with the retirement of pursuits, ultimately publish- founder Bella Lewitzy. But ing a variety of writings from
22 SIPAnews 1983 1988 1990 1992 As the appropriation man- As the German bureau chief KAREN ALEXANDER, MPA, After graduation, SARA ager for the Defense Health for The Detroit News, has worked for the New Jer- BENIOFF, MPA, worked in Program, RACHEL COPPER- DANIEL HOWES, MIA, is sey Transit Authority as Brooklyn for two years as MAN FOSTER, MPA, over- racking up mileage. He cov- manager of its accessibility director of development for sees a $16 billion health ers the automotive industry, group for almost three years. Project Reach, a New York services program for eight specifically, but has bounced Karen is responsible for the City youth project. But Sara billion beneficiaries, the around Europe to write authority’s compliance to soon left the tree-lined largest program of its kind in about elections in Austria the Americans with Disabili- streets of Brooklyn for Lon- the world. After leaving and turmoil in Russia. ties Act, making sure those don. She currently works as GABRIEL PLESEA SIPA, Rachel became a pres- Howes, who is based in New Jersyans requiring para- the national program man- idential management intern Wiesbaden, also writes a transit get a lift. ager for Crime Concern, a at the Office of the Secretary weekly column on the global youth mentoring and educa- of Defense (OSD), and has auto industry. tion program that initally been there ever since. In operated only in a single 1994, with an OSD gradu- 1991 borough of London. Crime ate fellowship, she received a Concern quickly blossomed In 1998, SEBASTIAN COR- post-master’s degree in into a national initiative after 1989 RADINO, MPA, founded health services administra- Tony Blair and John Major JANET A. BURROUGHS, MissionFirst Capitol Advi- tion from George Washing- MIA, is co-founder and pro- sors in Arlington, Virginia, a visited the project two years ton University. Rachel cred- gram director of the Learn- financial consulting firm spe- ago. Today there are 12 sim- its SIPA with giving her the ing English Adult Program, cializing in affordable hous- ilar project throughout the CECILIA CIEPIELA tools to successfully navigate Inc. (LEAP) in Manhattan. ing projects that brings U.K. Sara lives to the north her way to the top health LEAP offers free English together investors and devel- of London in Islington. care position at the Defense classes to adult immigrants opers from all over the sara.benioff@crimeconcern- Department or in her words, and refugees, 18 and older, world. Previously, Sebastian se.org.uk. “the HMO that goes to who live in New York City. worked for the Office of war.” Janet is also an adjunct pro- Management and Budget DONNA LEE VAN COTT, fessor at Marymount Man- under Mayor Dinkins, MIA, a “singing” assistant MAX DIETSHE, MIA, joined hattan College, where she received his law degree from professor of political science OppenheimerFunds, Inc., as teaches a critical thinking George Mason University from the University of Ten- vice president and director course on immigration and and worked at the National nessee, Knoxville, released a of marketing communica- American diversity. Cur- Equity Fund in Chicago, CD of original songs, titled SISSEL MCCARTHY tions. Previously, he spent rently, Janet is back at supervising the underwriting “Eclipse,” in December. The 11 years in a variety of mar- school, pursuing an of investments in affordable revival of her musical career, keting positions for Deloitte advanced certificate in teach- housing projects eligible for which she put on hold while & Touche. His lives in ing English as a second lan- low-income housing tax at SIPA, didn’t stop Donna Brooklyn with his wife and guage at NYU. LeapJan credits. corradino@mission- from publishing her second daughter. wswinslow@aol. @aol.com. first.com. book, The Friendly Liquida- com. tion of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America Last April, CECILIA DAVID OLIVER, MIA, lives last March. You can visit CIEPIELA, MIA, returned to with his wife, Roberta, and the United States after four five year-old daughter, Anto- Donna’s web page at SIPA 1984 years in Russia working for nia, in Brooklyn, New York. http://web.utk.edu/~dvan- cott or send her an e-mail at AUBREY ALEXANDER CARL- USAID in Moscow. Cecilia The two are expecting [email protected]. Alumni SON, MIA, is a political offi- led the agency’s Regional another child in early cer stationed with the Amer- Investment Initiative, cre- November. David works in Gala ican Consulate in Hong ated to troubleshoot eco- the supportive housing field SISSEL MCCARTHY, MIA, SIPA’s first-ever Kong until 2002. He is also nomic growth problems in within the five boroughs of has been on maternity leave the proud parent of a millen- Russia. She now works with New York. DWOBrklyn caring for her little bundle of Alumni Gala will be nium baby. Karen Madison an Arlington, Virginia-based @aol.com. millenium joy – Justin, born Monday, Oct. 2 at Carlson was born January consulting firm called the Jan. 1 at 3:11 p.m. The four- The Plaza in New time mom is in her sixth year 19th at 10:32 a.m. in Hong CARANA Corporation, BEATRIZ PONT, MIA, York City. This event Kong. carlsons@ netvigator. which operates within the recently became an adminis- as London-based anchor for will give alumni and CNN’s “World Business com. former Soviet Union. trator with the Directorate friends of SIPA an [email protected]. for Education, Employment, Today.” sissel.mccarthy @turner.com. opportunity to sup- YUKIHIRHIRO NISHIMURA, Labour and Social Affairs at port the school while MIA, is a managing director After almost three years the OECD in Paris. Before enjoying a festive of derivatives and structured working on technical-assis- moving to France, Beatriz After working for New York evening. All proceeds products marketing for tance issues in competition worked for Arthur Andersen City’s Office of Manage- CDC Marches Tokyo, a law at the United Nations Consulting in Barcelona and ment and Budget for four will go toward fel- securities arm of Caisse de Conference on Trade and the Economic and Social years, JUDY SALWEIN, MPA, lowships. Please be was accepted to law school Dépôt et Consignation, a Development, MASSIMIL- Council of Spain in Madrid. sure to save the date at the University of Pennsly- French public fiduciary insti- IANO GANGI, MIA, is back [email protected]. for this important vania. She graduated last tution. ynishimura@cdc- in his native Italy, working occasion. For more year and currently works at marche.fr. for the Italian Competition GREGORY VISCUSI, MIA, information, please Authority. massimiliano. lives in Paris, where he the Wall Street law firm of Cahill, Gordon and Rein- contact Nancy Riedl, gangi@ agcm.it. writes feature stories for director of alumni Bloomberg News. gvis- dell. This fall she will clerk relations, 854-8598. [email protected]. for a New York federal judge.
SIPAnews 23 JIM WARECK, MPA, is the Portland, Oregon. Karen STACY GILBERT, MIA, is deputy director of congres- 1994 works at Portland State Uni- putting her economic policy sional and federal affairs for SANDRA BRAMWELL, MIA, versity as the manager of a and development studies of the Mayor of Washington, left Manhattan for a warmer research project funded by Central Europe to good use D.C., Anthony Williams. island after graduating from the federal Substance Abuse for the U.S. State Depart- Before working in Washing- SIPA. In Jamaica, Sandra and Mental Health Services ment’s Bureau of Popula- ton, Jim worked on the started Versan Educational Administration. tion, Refugees and Migra- Connecticut State Legisla- Services, which offers prepa- tion. Stacy has worked on ture for four years and even ration seminars for the the Kurdish refugee crisis, ran for senator (losing in a SSAT, SAT, GRE, GMAT, Albanian elections, Balkan MICHELLE WUCKER close and controversial race). LSAT and MCAT entrance 1996 reconstruction and refugee Jim fondly remembers the issues in Pakistan and exams. Catering to JULIE CHUNG, MIA, joined annual SIPA Follies as his Caribbean and Latin Ameri- the U.S. Foreign Service Afghanistan. She spent last first bonding moment with can students interested in after graduating and cur- summer in Macedonia and MIAs. pursuing an advanced rently works as an economic Kosovo as part of USAID’s degree in the United States, officer assigned to the Amer- Disaster Action Response HIDEMASA YAMAKAWA, Versan boasts an 80% success ican Embassy in Tokyo, Team. She plans to take a MIA, lives in New York, rate for placements within Japan. [email protected]. long break this summer and where he is general manager Ivy League schools. Must be ride her bike from her native for PanDao.com.Hide@pan- all that sun! versanedu@ “No matter where you go, Washington state to Wash- dao. com. jamweb.net. there you are,” a positive ington, D.C., her current home. [email protected]. philosophy that CONSTAN- ALEXANDER SUSAN SMITH, MPA/MPH, TINE DANTOULIS, MIA, WINSLOW will return to Columbia uses to help remind himself THOMAS D. ZWEIFEL, MIA, 1993 University next fall to that people’s individual works with a range of clients, from The Hunger Project to STEVE WALKER, MIA, has become the director of spe- strengths are their greatest taken a unique path back cial projects for the School asset. The Greek-born SIPA the Harvard Business into the classroom. Origi- of Public Health. While at grad worked for AT&T School, as CEO of the Swiss nally at SIPA in 1984-85, SIPA, she worked full-time Solutions and Booz, Allen & Consulting Group. Thomas Steve left to work for the at the Carnegie Corporation Hamilton before accepting a will teach a new leadership U.S. Foreign Service. After of New York. She had the position as managing direc- course at SIPA next fall. tours in Mexico, the then- opportunity to work on a tor for Z-Tel in Tampa, Leadership in International Soviet Union and Washing- grantmaking program for Florida last June. Z-Tel is a and Public Affairs offers stu- ton, D.C., he returned to health and youth projects new local, long-distance and dents an intellectual frame- SIPA with a Zuckerman Fel- after graduation. Presently, Internet telephony company work of executive adminis- KAREN CELLARIUS lowship in 1992 to finish his Susan is responsible for over- taking advantage of the tration, focusing on interna- degree. Between 1994 and seeing multi-million dollar growing telecommunica- tional and public affairs 1998, Steve co-founded the grant initiatives in 11 cities tions market in the United within government, non- American Committee to concerning health, early States. [email protected]. government and transna- Save Bosnia, the Action childhood and adolescent tional organizations. tdz@swissconsultinggroup. Council for Peace in the development. She looks for- ALEXANDER com. Balkans and the Balkan ward to her career transition GROUSHEVSKY, MIA, lives Institute–organizations that and her homecoming to in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he is led efforts to lift the arms Columbia. a senior adviser for KPMG, embargo and stop the ethnic Barents Group LLC, helping and religious partitioning of For the last two years, privatized Ukrainian busi- 1997 Bosnia. Steve is now a high ALEXANDER WINSLOW, nesses restructure. After moving to Silicon Val- CONSTANTINE school social studies teacher MPA, has been the director ley, AJOY CHANDRA, DANTOULIS in Westchester County, New of communications for the CEM PENSOY, MIA, lives in MIA/MBA, launched York, and finds teaching Bay Area Council, a busi- Istanbul, Turkey, where he’s AsianTrading.Net, an Inter- high schoolers, “the most ness-sponsored public policy the general manager of GFC net-based international trade exciting and rewarding thing organization that works on General Finance Securities platform. Ajoy, a Bay Area I have ever done–and that economic and quality-of-life Corp., a firm offering wealth devotee of pick-up frisbee, says a lot after Moscow and issues in the San Francisco management and brokerage encourages alumni to stay in Bosnia.” [email protected]. Bay Area. Having run the services for private investors. touch. achandra@asiantrad- Boston Marathon on April [email protected]. ing.net. MICHELLE WUCKER, MIA, 17, Alexander plans to go was recently named a senior the distance by getting mar- JAMES PRUSKY, MIA/MBA, One of the great things fellow at the World Policy ried this August in Milwau- recently completed about working for Moody’s Institute at the New School kee, Wisconsin. Citibanks’s two-year Global Investor Service for PATRICK CEM PENSOY in New York City. Her inter- Emerging Markets Associate FORD, MIA, is that he gets ests in Latin American poli- DAVID GOULD, MIA, is a program and is now vice- to work with SIPA alums tics, culture, finance and senior field adviser working president of business devel- and former classmates. In immigration issues with USAID in Tegucigalpa, opment for Citigroup’s 1998, Patrick was trans- prompted her to write the Honduras. online service, e-Citi. Dur- ferred to Moody’s in San book, Why The Cocks Fight: ing the past two years, James Francisco, where he cur- Dominicans, Haitians, and has worked in Hong Kong, rently covers the Pacific the Struggle for Hispaniola, Singapore, London, Coast region. He lives near published last year by Hill & 1995 Budapest and Bogotá, with Haight-Asbury in San Fran- Wang. michele@wucker. Last July, KAREN CELLAR- many stops in between. cisco, “the nexus of anti-cor- com. IUS, MPA, bought a little [email protected]. poratism,” and enjoys yellow house with a laundry attending SIPA’s monthly chute and a backyard in happy hours at the Thirsty
24 SIPAnews Bear Brewing Company. childcare, substance abuse, bus through snow drifts and E-mail: [email protected]. mental illness, employment, sub zero temperatures— Let’s Hear and healthcare issues as they itself a challenge for a native SCOTT LARSON, MIA, lives relate to the homeless. Arizonan. Mayes’s ride is from You! in Seattle and is the vice Recently, Jill developed a not over; she plans to cover president of strategic devel- welfare-to-work program for the Republican National Class Notes submissions opment for InfoMove. families with substance abuse Convention in July, and should be e-mailed to Scott.Larson@InfoMove. problems that is now being later the general election. [email protected], com. implemented city-wide. She or faxed to (212) 854-8660. also serves as the representa- RON PERKEL, MPA, is a Photographs should be BETSY POLLACK SHIMBERG, tive for her agency to the management analyst for the STACY GILBERT prints (no digital, yet) and MPA, is back at work, part- HUD Homeless Manage- U.S. Foreign Agriculture mailed to SIPA News, time, after giving birth to ment Information System Service (a division of the Columbia University, 1508 Naomi Faith, who, she hap- Users Program. USDA). His responsibilities International Affairs, 420 W. pily reports, has brought include making the agency’s 118th St., New York, NY incredible joy to her life. As a financial analyst with food aid programs more 10027. Betsy is director of policy IBM Global Services, efficient and e-commerce and planning for Mercer RAPHAEL GROSS, MIA, ready. Recently, Ron repre- Street Friends, a human ser- works on strategic outsourc- sented the USDA, promot- vices nonprofit in Trenton, ing, builds financial models ing export credit guarantee New Jersey. The organiza- and forecasts industry move- programs in Guatemala, El tion offers services from ments. He lives in Riverdale, Salvador and Honduras for child care to welfare-to-work New York, with his wife, the Central American frozen THOMAS D. ZWEIFEL to senior care. kbshim@ibm. Meira. Raphael would love food market. net. to hear from other SIPA alums who work in finance MARY KAY SANTORE, MPA, DAVID Z. SOLOMON, MIA, either in the United States or is a policy analyst at the U.S. has kicked around Wall abroad. raphgross@ Environmental Protection Street since graduating yahoo.com. Agency (EPA), Office of SIPA. He currently is an Policy Economics and Inno- associate in the equities divi- JEROME HOHMAN, MPA, vation. She works on a range sion at Goldman Sachs. Pre- works at the U.S. Depart- of activities focused on mini- viously, David was a corpo- ment of State as a budget mizing the environmental rate associate at Schulte analyst in the Bureau of impacts of transportation Rothe & Zabel LLP in Man- Finance Management Policy. and development decisions. PATRICK FORD hattan. david.z.solomon He reviews U.S. foreign pol- In November, she repre- @gs.com. icy as it interfaces with the sented the EPA at the bi- Office of Management and annual meeting of the Budget, White House and OECD in Paris, France. She congressional objectives. has also served as the EPA Photography by Victor 1998 Last month, Jerome had the representative for a multi- Marin, pages 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 opportunity to travel with million dollar grant program KEVIN BAUMERT, MIA, (student group), 9-13, 14 works on issues relating to President Clinton to India, administered by the Depart- (except Dinkins), 15 emission reduction and sus- serving as a member of the ment of Transportation that (except Spirer), 16, 17; tainable development in Department of State, White supports local initiatives to Joe Pineiro, page 1; Christine Kuhn, page 8 developing countries at the House Travel Support Team. integrate transportation SCOTT LARSON (Kosovo). World Resources Institute in planning and community Washington, D.C. His pro- KRIS MAYES, MPA, a preservation strategies. jects assess policies negoti- national political reporter for SIPA News is published biannually by SIPA’s Office of External Relations. ated under the Kyoto Proto- the Arizona Republic, was assigned to cover the 2000 SIPA Editor: Anne Burke, MIA ’00 cols. He lives in Silver Photographer: Victor Marin, School of the Arts, ’01 Presidential election cycle. Spring, Maryland. PARENTS Reporters: Matt Craft, MIA ’01 and Mike Hickman, MIA ’01 [email protected]/wri. From October 1999 Contributors: Raffi Katchadourian, MIA ’00, and through March 2000, she Laura Kreutzer, MIA ’00 followed Arizona Senator CHRISTOPHER ENRICO Cover Illustration: Bob Chapman MIHO SANNOYIMA, MPA, ABBRUZZESE, MIA ’95, and Design and Production: Office of University Publications lives in Tokyo, Japan and John McCain, and Texas Gov. George W. Bush along wife MOLLY (LUCAS) works as a strategic planner SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS the campaign trail through ABBRUZZESE, MIA ’93, for Dentsu, Inc., an advertis- welcomed their third child, Dean: Lisa Anderson ing agency. Iowa, New Hampshire, Cali- Vice Dean: Steven Cohen fornia, Michigan and South a boy, in January. The cou- Associate Deans: Robin Lewis and Joan Turner Carolina, making cameo ple has relocated to Switzer- Office of External Relations: JoAnn Crawford, Director of appearances on CNN’s land, where Chris and a Publications and Special Events; Nancy Riedl, Director of Alumni Relations “Headline News” and partner started a global 1999 macro hedge fund called the appearing on the cover of COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY JILL BERRY, MPA, works at the New York Times. How- Ulysses Global Opportuni- 420 W. 118th St. the New York City Depart- ever, she did hit some bumps ties Fund. Molly has been a New York, NY 10027 ment of Homeless Services along the way. Mayes soon consultant to the World MIA Program: (212) 854-8690 MPA Program: (212) 854-2167 as a senior policy analyst in became the only reporter in Health Organization and the Division of Policy and the World Bank over the Office of External Relations: (212) 854-8598 America banned from Fax: (212) 854-8660 Planning. She coordinates McCain’s bus (The Straight past five years. policy for the agency and Talk Express), a fate she SIPA News, 420 W. 118th St., Room 1508, New York, NY 10027 works with nonprofit, Fed- dealt with by renting a car E-mail: [email protected] eral, State and City agencies and following the Senator’s Phone: (212) 854-4905 • Fax: (212) 854-8660 to develop programs on http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa